He unrolled the yarn to the matching sight word pair across to the other column, cut it, and taped it to make a sight word match!

And repeat through all the sight words!

Some of the sight words he knew right off the bat, some he asked.

I didn’t quiz him, or made him sound them out.

I tried to remember that these are sight words and its all about memorization, so if he didn’t know them, I simply just told him, ‘Its walk’, and encouraged him to tell me the word back when he found its match.

Matching pairs like this doesn’t have to be just about sight words!

Simply replace the sight words with letters (could be upper and lower case), numbers (or even number and dots to match), or even could do beginning letter sounds (match ‘a’ with ‘apple’).

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